Serhiy Timofeyevych Shevchenko () (October 5, 1908, in Makiyivka,

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– 200?, in

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) was a Ukrainian politician and

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who served as the

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Education

Serhiy Shevchenko graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of National Economy, and the

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in 1937.

Professional career and experience

* In 1937 he was heading department of executive cadres in People's Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian SSR. * In 1941 - he entered military service in

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. * In 194?–1946 - Deputy Chief Political Officer in the

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. * In 1946 - he worked in the Kyiv Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. * In 1964 to 1968 - he was permanent representative of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to the United Nations. * In 1968, after an unsuccessful press conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the

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, Sergei Shevchenko left

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.СУЧАСНІСТЬ. січень 1970, Ч.1 (109). Мюнхен. Видавництво: Українське товариство закордонних студій «Сучасність»

References

External links

Chronicle: Ukraine to the United Nations

Handbook of the history of the Communist Party and the Soviet Union 1898 - 1991

UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL OFFICIAL RECORDS THIRTY-NINTH YEAR 2542nd MEETING: 25 MAY 1984 NEW YORK

Diplomacy in the Former Soviet Republics James P. Nichol Greenwood Publishing Group, 1.01.1995 - 244.

Ukraine's U.N. Mission celebrates 40th anniversary
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shevchenko 1908 births 2000s deaths People from Makiivka Kharkiv National University of Economics alumni Permanent representatives of Ukraine to the United Nations Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) politicians